Cat v. t. [imp. & p. p. Catted; p. pr. & vb. n. Catting.] Naut. To bring to the cathead; as, to cat an anchor. See Anchor.
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  cat
       n 1: feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and being unable
            to roar; domestic cats; wildcats [syn: true cat]
       2: an informal term for a youth or man; "a nice guy"; "the
          guy's only doing it for some doll" [syn: guy, hombre,
          bozo]
       3: a spiteful woman gossip; "what a cat she is!"
       4: the leaves of the shrub Catha edulis which are chewed like
          tobacco or used to make tea; has the effect of a euphoric
          stimulant; "in Yemen kat is used daily by 85% of adults"
          [syn: kat, khat, qat, quat, Arabian tea, African
          tea]
       5: a whip with nine knotted cords; "British sailors feared the
          cat" [syn: cat-o'-nine-tails]
       6: a large vehicle that is driven by caterpillar tracks;
          frequently used for moving earth in construction and farm
          work [syn: Caterpillar]
       7: any of several large cats typically able to roar and living
          in the wild [syn: big cat]
       8: a method of examining body organs by scanning them with X
          rays and using a computer to construct a series of
          cross-sectional scans along a single axis [syn: computerized
          tomography, computed tomography, CT, computerized
          axial tomography, computed axial tomography]
       v 1: beat with a cat-o'-nine-tails
       2: eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After
          drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged
          continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave
          him last night" [syn: vomit, vomit up, purge, cast,
           sick, be sick, disgorge, regorge, retch, puke,
           barf, spew, spue, chuck, upchuck, honk, regurgitate,
           throw up] [ant: keep down]
       [also: catting, catted]